The Financial Conduct Authority, which both sets and enforces the rules for companies working in the financial services sector, is set to question around 3,000 firms about pension transfer risks, following suspicious surges in transfer activity over the past few years. In many cases, people may have been given negligent financial advice that led them…

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is forecasting an extra £69 million levy to pay for pension mis-selling compensation, as claims about SIPP pensions and final salary pension transfers appear to rise. As the ‘lifeboat’ scheme for the financial services sector, the FSCS is often responsible for paying claims when companies can’t either because they cannot…

Have you moved a defined benefit pension? Final salary pensions are some of the most rare and valuable pensions around, promising a guaranteed income in retirement, with some excellent benefits and security. But despite this, it appears people are leaving them in the thousands, as the FCA reports a massive 587% increase in pension transfers…

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which acts as a lifeboat to pay claims when firms cannot, has received over 1,400 mis-selling claims relating to the Beaufort Securities scandal. Beaufort, which entered into administration back in March shortly after it was revealed that parties relating to Beaufort were caught up in an FBI sting, provided discretionary…

The FCA has written out to financial advisers who have permissions to conduct final salary pension transfers to demand information about the ongoing costs of the new pension arrangements being paid by their clients. Final Salary pension transfers are rarely considered suitable under the FCA’s rules, because of the amount of risk moving away from…

Westminster will play host to steelworkers caught up in the mis-sold British steel pension transfer scandal, in an effort to hear and address concerns over the compensation offers being made to people who have lost out by transferring. It is believed that some financial advisers used fear tactics and uncertainty over the future of the…

Speaking at an event, solicitor Philippa Hann told SIPP providers that it was time to “take responsibility” as SIPP pensions were “not simply a bucket into which a pile of cr*p can be poured”. In recent years, some SIPP providers have allowed thousands of people to invest in high-risk and unregulated investments – everything from…

For some time now, many people have wished to make claims against their SIPP provider because of supposed due diligence and responsibility failings that allowed unsuitable high-risk investments to take place. But such claims have been effectively put on hold for years while the responsibilities of SIPP providers has been debated. A huge part of…

SIPP administrators are being quizzed by the watchdogs and rule-makers at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over the plans they have in place should they become insolvent, and over their general resilience. The Regulator wrote out to SIPP providers following a ‘Dear CEO‘ letter the previous week, to ask them questions about their professional indemnity…

The compensation on offer from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme for those mis-sold their final salary pension transfers away from British Steel, has come under criticism from a financial adviser. Under current rules, the FSCS may pay out up to £50,000 in compensation to people who have been mis-sold over pension issues, if the negligent…

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